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Voices
Justice for all?
Published June 7, 2023
Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver listens to the voices of people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living under police surveillance
Kelsie Wentz
Postdoc honors
Chemistry postdoc named Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Published June 6, 2023
Kelsie Wentz will start a two-year project to develop hybrid inorganic-organic conjugated polymers with unique semiconducting properties
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Student experience
Sparking the imagination
Published June 5, 2023
From the journey of the earthworm to signs of racial inequity, the Krieger School's First-Year Seminars cover a range of topics that inspire new college students
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Psychology
Married people who cheat don't regret it
Published May 22, 2023
Married people who have affairs find them highly satisfying, express little remorse, and believe the cheating didn't hurt their otherwise healthy marriages, finds a new Johns Hopkins report on the psychology of infidelity
Samuel Durrance
In Memoriam
Enterprising astronomer, space researcher Samuel Durrance dies at 79
Published May 10, 2023
Durrance, a Johns Hopkins research scientist from 1980 to 1997, made influential contributions to the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope and flew on two NASA missions as a payload specialist
N. Peter Armitage
Faculty honors
Peter Armitage receives 2023 Brown Investigator Award
Published May 2, 2023
Armitage will receive $2M over the next five years for mid-career, curiosity-driven research
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Community
Students support environmental justice efforts in South Baltimore
Published April 27, 2023 Video
The yearlong Krieger School course allows students to contribute to ongoing conversations about a healthier and more just future for residents of South Baltimore's Curtis Bay
Brian R. Judd
In memoriam
Groundbreaking physicist Brian R. Judd dies at 92
Published April 27, 2023
He was best known for his seminal rare-earth metals research behind the groundbreaking Judd-Ofelt Theory of 1962
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Astrophysics
Could copycat black hole be a new type of star?
Published April 20, 2023
Though the mysterious object is a hypothetical mathematical construction, new simulations by Hopkins researchers suggest there could be other celestial bodies in space hiding from even the best telescopes on Earth
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ARTS+CULTURE
New details of Billie Holiday's early life
Published April 11, 2023
With a newly acquired collection of Billie Holiday biographical materials, JHU historians are piecing together details about the jazz singer's largely unknown early life in Baltimore